Interaction Designer / UX Designer

Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.

A market leading financial client based in London requires an accomplished Interaction Designer / UX Designer to join them for an exciting and challenging engagement.

Job Title: Interaction Designer / UX Designer

Duration: 6 months

Location: London (2 days a week on site)

Start: Immediately

Salary: Circa £87k - £89k with extensive benefits

As a team member, you will work collaboratively alongside a full design team and take full ownership of your design output. You will be confident when presenting your work to stakeholders and able to adapt designs to reflect their feedback and feedback from user research and usability testing.

Experience and Skills Required:

• Demonstrable experience within User Experience Design/Interaction Design
• Strong experience as an Interaction Designer or UX Designer (possibly from a Visual Design background)
• Full ownership of the Interaction Design project
• Skilfully craft the end-to-end user experience, bringing together a cohesive journey step by step, creatively using components from a central design system to figure out the right balance of content and UI (User Interface) elements on screen.
• Bring designs to life with a choice of prototyping software, such as Sketch, InVision, Figma, Axure, or Adobe XD
• Excellent prototyping and layout skills which you can articulate clearly to internal customers and development teams.
• Comfortable using existing design systems, proactively recommending new ways to improve and extend them to benefit both the project and other designers.
• Ability to interpret quantitative and qualitative research and how this informs the interaction design process. We have dedicated user research teams supporting designers on real data, providing a great wealth of customer insights.
• Familiarity working in a complex landscape - ideally, you'll have experience in financial services.

If you think you have the experience and would like to become an employee of this fast-growing business unit within Ajilon, please apply with your CV right now for swift consideration!